Packaging

The Drive

The drive uses the M.2 2280 form factor, which makes it 22 mm wide and 80 mm long.


While most other M.2 NVMe SSDs use the PCI-Express 3.0 x4 interface, the Corsair MP600 Pro connects to the host system over a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 interface, which doubles the theoretical bandwidth.


On the PCB, you'll find the controller, four flash chips, and one DRAM chip.


The metal heatsink is preinstalled. A wraparound type of housing soaks up heat through thermal pads on the front and back.

Chip Component Analysis

The Phison PS5018-E18 is Phison's new PCI-Express 4.0 controller with eight channels. It is produced on TSMC's 12 nanometer node and uses five Arm Cortex R5 CPU cores. The E18 supports NVMe 1.4, TLC, DDR4 memory, and up to 32 dies.


The four flash chips are Micron 96-layer 3D TLC NAND. Each chip has a capacity of 256 GB.


A Hynix DDR4-2666 chip provides 1 GB of fast DRAM storage for the controller to store the mapping tables.